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AWS unveils trio of key AI strategy announcements

Amazon Connect is now a set of four modules, a new AI assistant launches, and a partnership with OpenAI is enhanced.

29 Apr 20265 mins

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Meta's compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores

24 Apr 20266 mins

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Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

22 Apr 20266 mins

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Microsoft to cut Windows 365 price for SMBs

By Matthew Finnegan

15 Apr 20263 mins

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Asana’s chief product officer: Why enterprise AI agents should be ‘multiplayer by design’

By Matthew Finnegan

1 Apr 20265 mins

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Startups accuse Microsoft of ‘billing trap’ in Azure AI Foundry after unexpected charges

By Anirban Ghoshal

16 Mar 20265 mins

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Amazon finds out AI programming isn't all it's cracked up to be

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

16 Mar 20266 mins

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Storage vendor offers a real guarantee — but check out those fine-print exceptions

By Evan Schuman

11 Mar 20267 mins

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Gov't IT spending seen as key to building Europe’s tech ecosystem

By Matthew Finnegan

6 Mar 20264 mins

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Articles

Online rights groups ask EU to put a stop to digital enshittification

An open letter from European consumer and online rights campaigners calls on EU institutions to stop big tech companies degrading digital services at users’ expense.

By Maxwell Cooter

6 Mar 2026 2 mins

Cloud ComputingEnterprise ApplicationsManaged Cloud Services

Lack of regulatory action on hyperscaler dominance prompts inquiry chair to quit

Despite finding last year that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are dominating the market for cloud services in the UK, the regulator has taken no action.

By Maxwell Cooter

5 Mar 2026 5 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGovernmentLaws and Regulations

OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift

While reaffirming its Microsoft partnership, the company is building a Bedrock-native orchestration layer that positions it firmly in multi-cloud territory.

28 Feb 2026 8 mins

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AI agent platforms could push down SaaS license costs, report argues

Citrini Research imagines a future where software tools and expertise are rendered obsolete while AI unleashes job losses and economic chaos.

By John E. Dunn

25 Feb 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSSoftware Licensing

Cost optimization: How to get the most out of your DaaS investment

Watching the bottom line: An automated approach to provisioning AVD with Nerdio guarantees reliability across deployments, mitigating the risk of errors and ensuring a seamless user experience—all while protecting your investment.

By Pete Bartolik

22 Jul 2024 4 mins

Cloud ComputingDigital Transformation

What really caused that AWS outage in December?

AWS now has confirmed its AI actually did delete and recreate an environment, but is blaming a human engineer for the mishap. AI firms blaming humans is becoming a recurring theme.

By Evan Schuman

24 Feb 2026 7 mins

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Microsoft undercuts its kinder, gentler image with big ICE contract

Though publicly the company has kept its distance from the Trump Administration, it’s apparently all too willing to work with ICE in the US.

By Preston Gralla

24 Feb 2026 6 mins

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Apple, the storage company

So far, it's managed to keep customers satisfied —1GB at a time.

23 Feb 2026 5 mins

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Starcloud prepares to launch AWS Outpost into space

But even the CEO of AWS is skeptical of plans to put data centers in space.

By Maxwell Cooter

13 Feb 2026 2 mins

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SaaS isn’t dead, the market is just becoming more hybrid

The future isn’t all incumbents or all AI-native startups, it’s a blended ecosystem of agent-driven platforms, new pricing structures, and AI governance layers, says Deloitte.

13 Feb 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingSaaS

Gartner: European spending on sovereign cloud IaaS to nearly double in 2026

Hyperscalers that fail to adapt risk a significant revenue hit as sovereign cloud gains momentum globally and customers eye workload “geopatriation.”

By Matthew Finnegan

10 Feb 2026 4 mins

Cloud ComputingMarketsTechnology Industry

Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts, including to AWS

AWS staff learned of the cuts early when an internal meeting invitation was posted in error.

28 Jan 2026 2 mins

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Amazon layoffs expected to disproportionately hit AWS and tech talent

Analysts and AWS watchers agree that the roughly 15,000 cuts are caused by ‘culture’, but there is disagreement about what that actually means.

By Evan Schuman

23 Jan 2026 6 mins

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6 May 20268 mins

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Edge browser leaves passwords exposed in plain text, says researcher

By Maxwell Cooter

5 May 20263 mins

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The classic search engine Ask Jeeves has been shut down

By Mikael Markander

5 May 20261 min

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By Arnold Davick

5 May 20262 mins

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Global IT Spending, Anthropic Compute, Google Security Agents | Ep. 78

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30 Apr 20262 mins

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RAM Shortage, Teams Impersonation, LinkedIn Crosscheck AI Testing | Ep. 77

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29 Apr 20262 mins

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AI starts to reshape how scientific discovery happens

28 Apr 202647 mins

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Windows 365 Discounts, Claude Opus, Zuckerberg AI CEO | Ep. 75

By Arnold Davick

23 Apr 20262 mins

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AI's 'prove-it' year: Why the rest of 2026 will reset expectations for agents, security and ROI

22 Apr 202648 mins

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